The Emirati-Saudi project and the Gulf concerns

From the point of view of Riyadh and Abu Dhabi, Sudanese normalization with the Israeli occupation entity is a new victory. In fact, this was not surprising. As soon as the new – old government in Khartoum, which crystallized in the summer of last year following the overthrow of the Omar al-Bashir regime, failed to create balanced relations with the three conflicting axes in the region and its bias towards the Gulf duo, the Sudanese claims that are announced today in succession have become a foregone conclusion. . Since the formation of the UAE-Saudi Coordination Council, headed by the crown princes of the two countries, Mohammed bin Zayed and Mohammed bin Salman, in May 2016, it has undertaken to defeat the Iranian and Turkish axes, support Arab tyranny, and announce a public alliance with the Zionists, hoping to act as a policeman in the region. Under US “leadership”. Since then, Saudi visits and meetings with the Zionists have intensified, so the former head of intelligence, Turki Al-Faisal, met with the former Hebrew National Security Adviser, Yaakov Amidror (May 2016), and Major General Anwar Ashki visited Israel (July 2016), and repeated the prayer beads.
The formation of the Coordination Council and the copious agreements signed by the two sides, reflecting the great momentum in the relationship between the two men, for whom the internal and international conditions were granted almost absolute powers. Ibn Zaid has become a major actor in the decision since the departure of the founder of the Emirates, Zayed Al Nahyan, and then he became an almost absolute ruler in the last ten years, when disease prevented his half-brother, Khalifa, from carrying out his duties as head of state. Among the victories that Bin Zayed and Bin Salman are proud of is the overthrow of the strong security man and friend of US intelligence, Mohammed bin Nayef, from the Crown Prince in Saudi Arabia, after the invasion of the “white man”, Donald Trump, to Najd in May 2017, which also sparked the crisis with Qatar. Bin Zayed does not seem in a hurry to declare himself president. He still holds the title of Crown Prince of Abu Dhabi, although everyone at home and abroad sees him and deals with him as the de facto president of the Emirates, and the Prime Minister and Ruler of Dubai, Mohammed bin Rashid, is writing a poem of loyalty to the ruler of Abu Dhabi, the emirate that finances the greater part of the budget The federation of the seven emirates. Perhaps the message that Ibn Zayed says to bin Salman: Why the hurry? You are a ruler, even if you do not bear the title of king.

The goals of the Emirati-Saudi coordination do not carry signs of peace, development, freedoms and internal accords

Regionally, the most important victory – from the point of view of the duo -, which was recorded before the arrival of Bin Salman, was the breaking of the Egyptian experience in 2013, which was originally facing many challenges. Therefore, it is expected that the consequences will be bleak for Sudanese in the near future, in terms of suppressing freedoms and promoting unilateralism, and this is the fate of any country that falls under the domination of this duo. Kuwait, Qatar, and Oman have distanced themselves from all Saudi options. While Qatar resorted to an alliance with Turkey and strengthened its relations with American institutions, Kuwait pursued a policy of distancing itself from the axes, an approach it has followed since it paid the price for its involvement in the Iran-Iraq war in the 1980s. Kuwait and Oman fear that they will be targeted by the Emirati-Saudi coordination, as well as Qatar, Iran, Turkey, and civil and political groups active in the region. The UAE and Saudi Arabia deny that their coordination is an alternative to the “Gulf Cooperation Council.” Here, another of the goals of the Gulf duo emerges, which is to further marginalize the Cooperation Council, the Arab League, and the Organization of the Islamic World.
Bahraini, since the formation of the duo, the question arose: Where is Manama in it? We did not hear a public response from the UAE, as for Saudi Arabia, it responded to Bahrain’s urging, and agreed in July 2019 to form a coordination council headed by the foreign ministers of the two countries, contrary to Bahrain’s desire, which hopes that coordination will be headed by the Crown Prince of the two kingdoms. A new event occurred on the seventh of October, when the Saudi Council of Ministers announced its agreement to “negotiate with Bahrain to raise the level of representation for the Saudi-Bahraini Coordination Council to be headed by the crown princes of the two countries.” It is believed that the visit of the Saudi Foreign Minister, Faisal bin Farhan, to Manama on the 21st of this month, was among its goals to prepare for “signing the protocol amending the minutes of the establishment of the Council”, to be headed by the crown princes of the two kingdoms.
The problem is that the goals of the Emirati-Saudi coordination do not carry signs of peace, development, freedoms and internal accords in the countries that follow this duo, or understandings with neighbors, which increases the causes of concern in the Gulf, Arab and regional levels, and pushes tensions in the Gulf and the region to their maximum, especially with the crystallization of the fact that Israel has become in direct confrontation with Iran from Gulf land.

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